In the July 4, 1990, the then political activist, Raila Amolo Odinga, was arrested alongside former cabinet ministers Kenneth Matiba and Charles Rubia.
The three political leaders were arrested and detained for demanding the re-introduction of multiparty democracy in Kenya.
The arrest came ahead of a planned political rally on July 7th that year by the opposition leaders that was to be staged at Kamkunji grounds in a bid to end former president Moi's one-party state system.
However, the father of multi-party democracy, as Raila Odinga is known, seems to have shifted goal posts that would render all the efforts put into ending one-party-state worthless.
The recent move by the opposition chief to join the government could actually signify the beginning of the end of multiparty democracy in Kenya.
Again, if the current exodus of opposition political leaders to the government is anything to go by, then the opposition is as well as dead.
Subsequently, this would lead to the death of other smaller parties in the country as everyone is showing the desire to work with the ruling part of Jubilee.
Another thing, Ruto's tour in the opposition's stronghold of the coastal region shows the endless efforts the government is making to woe the whole country to support the ruling party's ideology.
Moreover, the rate at which the opposition leaders are promising to work with the government as seen across the coastal region is playing a bigger role in consolidating the country into supporting the ruling party which is Jubilee.
This sudden shift of allegiance by opposition leaders who to support the government's ideology could have alluded to the opposition chief and former prime minister Raila Amolo Odinga's decision to work with the government.
Therefore, the same wave that swept the country to the world of multiparty is the same wave that is likely to take the country back to the one-party state.
The opposition is dying a slow but a sure death.
Kenya is slowly sliding back to one party state and whether this is true or false is a matter of wait and see.